If you want to talk about Jiajing which prime minister was in office for the longest time during the reign of ruling, it must be Yan Song . He was in office for twenty years, and it is no exaggeration to say that he is an evergreen in the political arena.
But he is a real treacherous minister. There are only two things I do on weekdays, the first is to embezzle and accept bribes; the second is to suppress dissidents.
There are countless officials who impeached him, basically only three outcomes: the first type of exile, the second type of arrest, and the third type of killing, among which the death of Shen Lian is the most shocking.
My background is Lu Bing
Speaking of the largest political party in Jiajing dynasty, it must be Yan Party led by Yan Song. How big is it? As for Yan Song's son Yan Shifan , he was obviously a prisoner, but he was able to eat and drink in the capital and spend time.
You should know that it is the capital city. To be more understandable, it is under the feet of the emperor.
is so arrogant and domineering. Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty , there are not many people, but Shen Lian, a seventh-grade Jinyiwei, dares to fight against him.
Yan Shifan has a very bad personality, that is, forcing others to drink.
If others dare not drink, they will say that others will not give him face. When others drink, they keep pouring wine for others to drink. Others have to drink due to their power.
Others spoiled him, but Shen Lian didn't spoil him. If Shen Lian was on the scene, he would drink for others.
Yan Shifan certainly didn't want to let Shen Lian go for his obvious unworthy behavior, but Shen Lian didn't want to let him go, so the two of them fought several times.
"Shifan abuses guests with wine, and refining his heart is unfair, and he will always do the opposite." - "Book of History of Ming Dynasty"
Some people may be curious, what is the origin of this Shen Lian? How dare you go against Yan Shifan?
Shen Lian is very young, but he is a Jinshi, but his backstage is very scary, that is Lu Bing, the commander of the Jinyiwei.
The two major secret agencies of the Ming Dynasty, the Jinyiwei and Dongchang , are theoretically equal, but in fact they are not equal, because the eunuch of the East Factory is closer to the emperor than the commander of the Jinyiwei, after all, he is an eunuch.
But in the Jiajing period, the situation reversed and became the Jinyiwei who was overthrowing the East Factory. Why is this? because of Lu Bing.
As we all know, Jiajing was able to succeed the throne because Ming Wuzong had no son. At that time, he was just a vassal king of Anlu . Lu Bing's father was Jiajing's father's personal bodyguard, and Lu Bing's mother was Jiajing's wet nurse.
Father and mother both work in the palace, so Lu Bing naturally lives in the palace, and the friend who plays with him is Jiajing. Later, when Jiajing entered Beijing, he also followed him to Beijing.
In the 18th year of Jiajing, Jiajing was out on a tour. By chance, there was no fire in the palace before, but a fire broke out when Jiajing was there.
Since it is an palace, everyone is not familiar with the route, and the fire is getting bigger and bigger, but no matter how you look, you can't find Jiajing.
Just when everyone thought Jiajing was dead, Lu Bing risked his life to rescue Jiajing from the sea of fire.
"In the 18th year of the year, I came from the south of the emperor, and then Weihui . At the fourth update of the night, the palace was fire, and I didn't know where the emperor was. Bing pawned the door and came out of the emperor, and the emperor loved Xun Bing." - "History of Ming Dynasty·Biography of Lu Bing"
As a friend who grew up naked and saved his life, Jiajing must have no trust in him by other ministers, which is why Jiajing handed over the position of commander of the Jinyiwei to him.
Because this position is very important to Jiajing. Jiajing was able to not attend court for nearly thirty years, but he was able to grasp the every move of the ministers. A large part of the secret lies in Lu Bing.
is Lu Bing using the Jinyiwei to provide him with all kinds of information he needs.
Yan Song and Yan Shifan will definitely not dare to provoke people like Lu Bing. If they dare to provoke them, maybe Lu Bing will throw some prohibited items at the Yan family that day, and Yan Song will be doomed.
A big tree like Lu Bing wants to curry favor with him. Why can Shen Lian curry favor with him? Because Shen Lian is evil, and to be precise, it is not Shen Lian who flatters him, it is him who appreciates Shen Lian.
As a seventh-rank Jinyiwei, Shen Lian did not even have the qualifications to go to court, but he was more active than a minister who was qualified to go to court. From time to time, he would write to discuss the government affairs and give some suggestions to the court. Although most of the suggestions he made were in the trash can, he still enjoyed it.
A Jinyiwei does not extort, but is worried about the country. People like this are scarce items at any time and cannot get along at any time.
But fortunately, he met Lu Bing.
Lu Bing, who has received a good education since childhood, has the most basic conscience. He knows that Shen Lian is a rare talent, so he takes him by his side and uses it as a personal bodyguard.
If Lu Bing hadn't protected him, he would probably not have enough of his ten lives.
ministers are not as good as minor officials
In the 29th year of Jiajing, the biggest crisis of Jiajing dynasty occurred in the Ming Dynasty, that is, " Gengxu Change ". The leader of the Tatar tribe Altan led tens of thousands of cavalry to the capital, forcing Jiajing to sign the "Uncity Alliance" to cede land and pay compensation.
Of course, Jiajing disagreed with this. Although he did not attend court, he still wanted face. In addition, the Ming Dynasty had already reached the capital with more than 100,000 troops of kings. Even if he really wanted to fight, he was not afraid.
But there is one person who doesn’t want to hit, and this person is Yan Song.
Why doesn’t Yan Song want to fight? Because once the fight starts, uncertain factors will arise:
First, this is the capital;
Secondly, although this army of more than 100,000 is a real army of more than 100,000, there is no false report.
But the components inside are complicated. There are soldiers on the border, soldiers from the Beijing camp, and soldiers temporarily recruited. They are not familiar with each other and do not interact much in normal times, so they may not be able to mobilize them at the same time. After all, civil officials despise each other, and military generals despise each other.
was defeated at the border. If possible, then conceal the report and even "turn the defeat into victory". If not, blame the general.
But if he loses a war near the capital, he can't push the responsibility no matter how much he pushes against it. After all, it's under the feet of the emperor. Therefore, his proposal is to avoid war.
But Altan has already hit the doorstep. If he avoids the war, the people outside the capital will suffer unprecedented disaster.
As the ministers of the country, civil and military officials should always come out to say a few words to the people at this time, but unexpectedly, all the officials remained silent, and only Siye Zhao Zhenji stepped forward to express their opposition.
At that time, Shen Lian was also present. Faced with the mediocrity of other officials, Shen Lian took the initiative to stand up to support Zhao Zhenji.
Facts have proved that bullying the weak and fearing the strong has always been the characteristics of some people.
Xia Bangmo, the Minister of Personnel, dared not take the initiative to fight, but dared to stand up and mock Shen Lian, deliberately asked him what official he was. The meaning was very clear. What do you think? Where is your turn to speak here?
Shen Lian knew what his words meant, but he did not feel ashamed, but said righteously: "I am the seventh-rank Jinyiwei and experienced Shen Lian. If the ministers don't say it, of course I have to say it."
I believe the ministers present could find a crack in the ground when they heard this. Since the influence of Zhao Zhenji and Shen Lian is too limited, should we avoid war or avoid war?
However, the Minister of War Ding Rukui ended up beheading and showing public performance, because Jiajing also took the initiative to fight.
Ding Rukui strictly implemented Yan Song's policy of avoiding war. He originally thought Yan Song would protect him, but Yan Song pushed him out. In the end, he became tough and stood on the execution ground to curse Yan Song's traitor, but it was too late.
It is worth mentioning that when the Gengxu Incident occurred, the emperor would be in the future and the country was under the limelight and Zhang Juzheng was also present. However, he did not have the courage to stand up and sing a contradictory tune with Yan Song, but instead scolded his teacher, the second assistant, Xu Jie , incompetent.
Lu Bing originally admired Shen Lian, and Shen Lian's performance during the Gengxu Incident made him even more favorable. I don't know, Shen Lian is already alive for a while, because he is ready to fight hard when he witnessed the Gengxu Incident.
eventually took his life
Due to the Gengxu Incident, Jiajing was quite depressed because he knew that he would write down a lot in the future in the history books, and he would definitely not be able to escape the blame.
happened to Shen Lian submit a memorial. The main content of the memorial was to impeach Yan Song, and his words were fierce, which was obviously for Yan Song's life. The three most deadly sentences were:
The greedy nature was staggered, and his foolish heart was stubborn on the iron stone;
Today I killed Song to thank the world, and tomorrow I killed my ministers to thank Song. Even if I died, I would have no regrets;
The battle of the enemy must first be used to control the enemy, temple calculation must eliminate evil for the world, and then foreign invaders can be eradicated.
After a lot of things, coupled with a memorial from Shen Lian, Jiajing couldn't help but think about it. Yan Song realized that if he couldn't give Jiajing an explanation, he might really be over, so he immediately bit Shen Lian.
Before this, Shen Lian's clan brother Shen Shu had been imprisoned for impeaching Yan Song. Yan Song said that Shen Lian wrote a letter to impeach him as a revenge on him. Jiajing believed it, and with Yan Song's operation, Shen Lian was sent to the security guard to farm.
Some people may be curious about why Lu Bing did not protect him. It’s not that Lu Bing does not want to protect him, but that he cannot protect him.
For example, two equally matched gangsters have always been safe. Suddenly, a gangster's younger brother wanted the life of another gangster and took action, but it ended in failure.
It can be imagined that if the gangster boss wants to protect his younger brother, he can only break up with another gangster boss. The ending of this breakup is something that neither party wants to see, so Shen Lian can only bear it alone.
Facts have proved that officials who dare to contradict the power for the sake of the people will be respected by others wherever they go.
When Shen Lian went to the security guard, there was nothing, but in less than a year, he wanted a house and money.
Why? because local businessmen have funded him. At the same time, he also became a teacher. Don’t forget that he was from a Jinshi.
He was far away from the court and did not indulge in a peaceful life. Instead, he scolded Yan Song every day and posted Yan Song's portrait on the scarecrow to shoot.
Yan Song of course knew what Shen Lian did to the security guard, so just six years later, Shen Lian died at the security guard.
Because Yan Song forcibly involved him in the treason of Weizhou general Yan Hao. His two sons, Shen Gun and Shen Bao, had no good ending and were beaten to death by Yan Song.
But fortunately, Shen Lian still saw the scene of Yan Song's fall. Shen Lian died in the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing, and Yan Song fell in the 44th year of Jiajing. How did he see it?
His students carried his ranking to Yan Shifan's execution site. If Shen Lian had spirit in the sky, he would be enough to smile.
"When the execution was held, the security guards who were taught by Lian were in the Taixue scholars, and they were named as officials on the silk office and held them in the market." - "History of Ming Dynasty·Biography of Shen Lian"
The reason why Yan Song fell was because people like Shen Lian always existed. If everyone is silent in the face of power, then Jiajing will be dark forever, rather than a rare light in the last few years.
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